PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?)

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I made a file with the PC encoding:

/PCEncoding [
  %00
  /.notdef /smileface /invsmileface /heart /diamond /club /spade /bullet
  /invbullet /circle /invcircle /mars /venus /musicalnote /musicalnotedbl /sun
  %10
  /triagrt /triaglf /arrowupdn /exclamdbl /paragraph /section /filledrect /arrowupdnbse
  /arrowup /arrowdown /arrowright /arrowleft /orthogonal /arrowboth /triagup /triagdn
  %20
  /space /exclam /quotedbl /numbersign /dollar /percent /ampersand /quotesingle
  /parenleft /parenright /asterisk /plus /comma /minus /period /slash
  %30
  /zero /one /two /three /four /five /six /seven
  /eight /nine /colon /semicolon /less /equal /greater /question
  %40
  /at /A /B /C /D /E /F /G
  /H /I /J /K /L /M /N /O
  %50
  /P /Q /R /S /T /U /V /W
  /X /Y /Z /bracketleft /backslash /bracketright /asciicircum /underscore
  %60
  /grave /a /b /c /d /e /f /g
  /h /i /j /k /l /m /n /o
  %70
  /p /q /r /s /t /u /v /w
  /x /y /z /braceleft /bar /braceright /asciitilde /house
  %80
  /Ccedilla /udieresis /eacute /acircumflex /adieresis /agrave /aring /ccedilla
  /ecircumflex /edieresis /egrave /idieresis /icircumflex /igrave /Adieresis /Aring
  %90
  /Eacute /ae /AE /ocircumflex /odieresis /ograve /ucircumflex /ugrave
  /ydieresis /Odieresis /Udieresis /cent /sterling /yen /peseta /florin
  %A0
  /aacute /iacute /oacute /uacute /ntilde /Ntilde /ordfeminine /ordmasculine
  /questiondown /logicalnot /logicalnotreversed /onehalf /onequarter /exclamdown /guillemotleft /guillemotright
  %B0
  /ltshade /shade /dkshade /SF110000 /SF090000 /SF190000 /SF200000 /SF210000
  /SF220000 /SF230000 /SF240000 /SF250000 /SF260000 /SF270000 /SF280000 /SF030000
  %C0
  /SF020000 /SF070000 /SF060000 /SF080000 /SF100000 /SF050000 /SF360000 /SF370000
  /SF380000 /SF390000 /SF400000 /SF410000 /SF420000 /SF430000 /SF440000 /SF450000
  %D0
  /SF460000 /SF470000 /SF480000 /SF490000 /SF500000 /SF510000 /SF520000 /SF530000
  /SF540000 /SF040000 /SF010000 /block /dnblock /lfblock /rtblock /upblock
  %E0
  /alpha /beta /Gamma /pi /Sigma /sigma /mu /tau
  /Phi /Theta /Omega /delta /infinity /phi /element /intersection
  %F0
  /equivalence /plusminus /greaterequal /lessequal /integraltop /integralbottom /divide /approxequal
  /degree /bulletoperator /middot /radical /nsuperior /twosuperior /blacksquare /nbspace
] readonly /Encoding defineresource pop

However, some characters doesn't work:
  /venus /Omega /bulletoperator /middot /blacksquare

Why it doesn't work? Did I put it in wrong, or is it not implemented in
the font? The font I used is "NimbusMonoPS-Regular" font in Ghostscript,
which is aliased as "Courier".

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PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2021-07-28 16:23 -0700
  Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2021-07-29 07:51 +0100
    Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2021-07-29 09:15 -0700
      Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2021-07-29 18:44 +0000
      Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2021-07-30 07:53 +0100
        Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2021-07-30 09:44 -0700
          Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2021-07-30 17:49 +0000
            Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2021-07-30 13:46 -0700
              Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) John Reiser <vendor@BitWagon.com> - 2021-07-31 10:30 -0700
              Re: PC Encoding (why some doesn't work?) luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2021-08-04 23:07 -0700

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